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Anyone have any experience with these?

The good thing about tuba mouth pieces is that if they don't work out, they still make good shot glasses.

Three Valves wrote:The good thing about tuba mouth pieces is that if they don't work out, they still make good shot glasses.

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Let's see: I see a Wick design ripoff, a GW design ripoff, and a PT+ design ripoff. Am I missing any?

I don't know, their exterior designs can be unusual enough


But it's hard to say how they'd play. They supply even less than average information on internal measurements. My guess is that from the emphasis on variety of external shapes, they don't know what they're doing, but of course that isn't much to go on - Denis Wick kind of falls into the same category, and lots of players like those mouthpieces.

I keep thinking of jokes about this that on a moment's reflection I'm not willing to say in public.

Ball in a cup!

Michael Bush wrote:I keep thinking of jokes about this that on a moment's reflection I'm not willing to say in public.

Awwww, c'mon................

I noticed on a few of the listings that the mouthpieces are made with a bronze alloy. Anyone know if it's a translation misnomer or are they actually using bronze instead of brass for the core of their mouthpieces.

I bet a quarter no one here has even seen one, let alone can answer that question for a fact. I have a bronze mouthpiece, supposed to be anyway - being silver plated there's no way you'd really know.

There might be some nomenclatural confusion. The Portuguese word for brass is latão, and a decent Brazilian Portuguese dictionary is quite clear on the difference between bronze and latão - but there's confusion elsewhere, that shows up for example in google translate. But that word bronze shows up in the Portuguese language site, too, so it isn't a translation error.

Similarly confusion is fostered in the trade names for various alloys, like there's a type of brass that's called "architectural bronze", and in the brass instrument world some skepticism is occasionally directed at the Reynolds lineage use of "bronze" for bells.

Luckily, it doesn't really matter a lot, though I expect typically bronze will be more dent-proof.